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It is five pm and dark as night. There is a patch of yellow sky visible; the garden lies in gloom. Individual, heavy drops fall but they are spaced far apart.

Last night, lightning crackled across the sky plus thunder. I unplugged my modem for fear of zapping my disk drive. The air was sulphuric yellow. Clouds were so low and the humidity so high that I felt dizzy and almost sick from the heat. It did not help cooking next to a hot stove. Then there was a stormlet but the rain was so light you could stand outside in it. In fact, I did, for refreshment.

The weather is such that everyone's commenting on it. The first thing people talk about when they meet and greet is the heat.

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Date: 2006-07-27 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digdigil.livejournal.com
It's world-wide then. We have it too. Yesterday morning we had thundershowers that cooled things down for a while but later in the afternoon the heat was back up. I took my son out to the park/playground, and if it wasn't for the strong wind, we wouldn't have been able to stay for longer than a few minutes.

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Date: 2006-07-27 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
This is the foreboding thing about it. If it were just a heat wave, we could all go 'ooh, heatwave'. But I can't help thinking (along with millions of others, no doubt) that these are portents of the future. This is it, global warming, and if it goes on like this we are stuffed.

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Date: 2006-07-27 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] digdigil.livejournal.com
OMYGOD!!! I just noticed your icon! I LOVE Tintin! My sister and I used to have ALL of the books when we were young! And Asterix too! Oh, my. *weeps for lost childhood*

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Date: 2006-07-27 07:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
Oh yes! Tintin is my weather icon!! But don't weep for your lost childhood: 'tis never lost. :-) We had all of Tintin (my brother the nerd knew every single character on the frontispieces) and nearly all of Asterix. Asterix we had in German and Tintin half and half.

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Date: 2006-07-27 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com
We still have no storm! Nothing! It's getting ridiculous!

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Date: 2006-07-27 07:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
You have no storm? But, but... you are practically next door! Wow, I just noticed the sky. It is now a grey blue shot through with pastel blue and overlaid with a fuzzy-edged glowing orange patch. Spectacular.

So what is the weather like in your parts?

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Date: 2006-07-27 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com
Everywhere has had the storm except us! We had ten minutes of pathetic rain yesterday evening, but they promised us a storm! It's still heavy, overcast and horribly humid here - it's making me feel ill. We have no air conditioning or fan at work, and by the afternoon I feel a bit wiped out. Bleurgh!

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Date: 2006-07-27 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com
... and they say August is going to be hotter...

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Date: 2006-07-27 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com
Two official heatwaves in one year, it's absurd *shakes head*

There is a patch of yellow sky visible; the garden lies in gloom.
I love this sentence.

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Date: 2006-07-27 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
I think soon they will have to be redefining what is an 'official' heatwave because if this continues (and it looks forebodingly as if it will), every summer will just be one long 'official heat wave'.

Is that chap in your icon that Freddie fellow?

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Date: 2006-07-28 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com
No, that's one of the Azzurri, Alberto Gilardino, this *points at icon* is Freddie &hearts LOL

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Date: 2006-07-28 01:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com
Of the Italians I only recognise Cannavaro and Gattuso and Buffon. I have hardened my heart against them (it's been difficult, grant you!) because of their 89th minute penalty dive against Australia. Although I recently read an interesting take on that which said that it was a lucky break for the Australians, really, because this way they bowed out gracefully, with the thought 'we could have gone much further'. Rather than being ignominously kicked out at the next stage 6:1 or somesuch...

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Date: 2006-07-29 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lhuneldaiel.livejournal.com
To be honest I wasn't that fond of the Italian team at first. The penalty dive left me jaw-dropped.
But I am shallow, LOL, and they began to win me over, which was mostly Canna's doing. Not only because I find him a gorgeous man, but also because he is such a talent.

That's an interesting view on the Australians. I wonder if they could have beaten the Ukraine, but meh, we'll never know.

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